Legal Studies 390: Women, Equality, and the Law is designed to introduce you to the history of women’s engagement with the law as a tool to achieve social change. In this course, you will examine both traditional women’s issues (abortion, pornography) and more cutting-edge issues (transgendered persons) that exemplify the feminist legal movement in Canada.
Introduction to Feminist Discourse |
Note: Read Chapters II, III, and IV, only. |
Note: Read Chapters 1 and 4, only. You might also want to review the table of contents for Chapters 2 and 3 and read portions of those Chapters that are of interest to you and support your assignments if you choose to write on these topics. |
Note: This link will download all of MacKinnon’s book. You will have to scroll down to Chapter 2, pp. 32–45. |
Basic Legal Principles and the Canadian Legal System |
Note: You are only required to read to the end of the second paragraph of "The Consequences of Failure" section (at the top of p. 22). |
Note: Read Sections 91–93 (pp. 14–19), only. |
Note: Read Part I, Sections 1–34 and Statute 52, only. |
Women’s Legal Personality: A Test Case |
Note: Read to the end of Part 4: Proceedings and Evidence of the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and of the House of Commons on the Constitution of Canada. |
Reading 15: Re Section 24 of the BNA Act, [1928] S.C.R. 276. |
Critical Perspectives on Law and Rights |
Note: As this is an ebook, you will have to scroll to Issue 3, page 581 to find the correct article. |
Reading 21: Jhappan, R. (1996). Post-modern race and gender essentialism or a post-mortem of scholarship. Studies in Political Economy, 51: 15-63. |
The Concept of Equality |
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Section 15 of the Charter: A History and Overview |
Abortion |
Pregnancy and Child Rearing |
Pornography |
Note: As this is an ebook, you will have to scroll to Issue 1, page 187 to find the correct article. |
Sexual Violence |